InCompass Best Practice Toolkit

This ‘Toolkit’ presents the outcomes of the INTERREG IVC project InCompass: Regional policy improvement for financially sustainable creative business incubator units. Its main target group are local and regional policy-makers. It therefore aims: - to identity practices to improve the financial self-sustainability of business incubators for the creative industries, in order to make them less dependent on local and regional public funding; - to indicate constraints and points of attention that policy-makers should take into account with regard to the transfer and implementation of observed practices. The Toolkit presents, in a structured way, a number of observed best practices. These are based on study visits to 29 incubators in seven regions in different parts of Europe. Thus, on the one hand it provides dedicated ‘tools’ to local and regional policy-makers and other actors involved in the management of creative incubators, and on the other hand it also serves to present the results of InCompass in an accessible way to a broader audience.